Reviews:
I don’t think I had the chance to write about one of my fav US bands –
Rollerball, so this is a good chance to do so.
Rollerball are a trio from Portland, OR that has been playing for 14
years or so. Since I don’t live in the hood, whenever I talk about them
to Americans, they are treated as a cult band, in the best sense of the
word. A band that seems like it always been there and will be here for
many years. Good.
They have released couple of amazing albums (Catholic Paws/Catholic
Pause, Behind The Barber, Real Hair) next to ‘just great’ albums
and always kept the best and highest standards to their music. A
strange and beautiful mixture of jazz, post punk, alternative and indie
rock (what does it mean anyway?) and general weirdness.
It’s been a while since we’ve heard of new music coming from them, but
the waiting is over – a new free d/l EP called Murwa Mbwa is available
via their loyal label Silber Media, with five new tracks, outtakes from
a future 2012 album.
The band had recently changed their name to Rllrbll and I guess they
are now ready to take over the world and become incredibly rich.
~ Yair Yona, Small Town Romance

If
RLLRBLL (AKA Rollerball) were a person, he or she would now be old
enough to vote; in Portland band years, this means they are
approximately 97 years old. Their staying power is due partly to
flexibility in lineup—now a trio—as well as in sound. RLLRBLL's
surprising hop-skipping among genres and insistence on experimentation
over the years may also explain why they've stayed under the radar.
Their latest, Murwa Mbwa, upholds their tradition of weird diversity.
Over a slim five songs, RLLRBLL swing between the driving drum-and-bass
post-rock of "Coffee with Donnie" to the melodic synthpop of "Wah
Kitty." RLLRBLL's real secret is not their eccentricity but in the fact
that even their most droney and unintelligible songs are beautiful, and
the pop tracks are never quite like anything you've heard before.~ Portland Mercury